In this newsletter we have an article about studies that were presented at the 8th European meeting of The Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) in Viterbo, Italy, August 13-16.The Society for Scientific Exploration is a professional, scientific organization to promote the study of non-ordinary phenomena for which we lack satisfactory explanations. Such phenomena are generally considered outside mainstream science, although they may have great significance for human knowledge and technology. Consciousness research, comprising parapsychology, and alternative medicine have here an open forum together with UFO phenomena and corn circles. The society was established in 1982 and has ca. 800 members in 42 countries. It has yearly meetings in the United States and every second year in Europe. The meeting in 2007 was arranged at Røros because of the strange, unexplained light phenomena in Hessdalen. Information about SSE and their journal may be found at the web site for Society for Scientific Exploration.

It was thanks to our interest for syntropy and our contact with the Italian couple, Antonella Vannini and Ulisse Di Corpo, we learned about the SSE meeting in Viterbo. We will, therefore, first of all concentrate on their presentations which deal with the theory of syntropy. With relation to the originator of the theory of syntropy, the Italian mathematician Luigi Fantappiè who was born in Viterbo, Ulisse Di Corpo gave a vivid exposition of the theory. Fantappiè claimed that the law of syntropy is essential to understand the life sciences, and what distinguishes living systems from dead matter.

The theory of syntropy opens for the possibility of retro-causal effects, that is that the future may have an effect on the present. Fantappiè suggested that such retro-causal effects might be observed in relation to the autonomous nervous system which regulates life processes. And, in fact, such a retro-causal effect has been observed with great significance in studies where the heart rate and the electrical skin resistance have been measured in test persons that have randomly been exposed to emotionally loaded pictures. In her presentation Antonella Vannini told us about her ongoing research in this field for a doctorial degree at the University of Rome. It is easy to understand how such a retro-causal effect may be of significance in the battle of survival. A deer which due to such an anticipatory effect is brought into a state of alarm a couple of seconds before it is able to smell or see the lion, has a very palpable advantage in the battle of ‘the survival of the fittest’. According to Fantappiè we relate to the past and to causal effects through thinking and thought processes, while we relate to syntropy and the future through our feelings. This observation of a retro-causal effect, therefore, gives a scientific reason for our respect for ‘female’ intuition.

We give a short mention of two other presentations at the SSE meeting in Viterbo because they are relevant to the ever ongoing question about the possibility of a scientific explanation of homeopathy. The research of V. Elias at the department of chemistry at the Federico II University in Naples is of special interest in this context. This is basically in agreement with what I have written about homeopathy in my book ‘Nytt lys på medisinen’, to which we have a link at our page on Biology&Medicine.

Comparing the intentional aim of our own web site with that of The Society for Scientific Exploration, we see that there is a common field of interest, but also a clear difference. The purpose of SSE is to promote the study of non-ordinary phenomena for which we lack a satisfactory scientific explanation. The purpose of our web site is to bring focus on scientific information which does not receive adequate attention, but which may be of great significance. We have accordingly taken up hadron mechanics which we believe to be a further step forwards in physics beyond quantum mechanics, and which may provide solutions to the foreboding energy and climatic crisis we are facing. Hadron mechanics touches basic questions in physics, mathematics and chemistry, not the question of ‘non-ordinary phenomena for which we have no scientific explanation’. It is therefore outside the field of interest of SSE. During my presentation of our web site syntropi.no at the meeting in Viterbo, I mentioned the research of Santilli and hadron mechanics. In spite of the fact that Santilli had received the price of the Mediterranean countries in January and this had been given due attention in Italian media, this was hardly known to the audience. To me this was a confirmation that we have some very important tasks to follow up at our web site.

In his article ‘Quantum Medicine has come to stay’ Bjørn Øverbye follows up and concludes his presentation of the book of Professor Dejan Rakovic about ‘Quantum Medicine and Quantum Holographic Informatics: Psychosomatic-Cognitive Implications’. This book is obviously at a very high scientific level. It confirms that we ought to be ready for a real paradigmatic change in scientific medicine where biophysics will play the principal role as a basic science for medicine, which it, indeed, ought to have had for a long time.

Vilhelm Schjelderup

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